PhD Alumni
Year 2002
1. E.G. Shivakumar
Thesis Title : “Space Vector PWM Control of Dual Inverter Fed Open-end winding Induction Motor”
2. V.T. Somasekhar
Thesis Title : “ Multilevel Inverter Schemes for Open-End Winding Induction Motor”
Currently working as Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Year 2003
3. K.K. Mohapatra
Thesis Title: “ Harmonic Elimination & suppression techniques for variable speed operation of 3-phase and split-phase Open-end winding Induction Motor”
Year 2004
4. M.R. Baiju
Thesis title : “Multilevel Inverter Topologies & Modulation Scheme for Induction Motor Drives”
Currently working as Professor in Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg., College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Year 2005
5. R.S. Kanchan
Thesis Title: “ PWM signal Generation & common mode voltage elimination for Multilevel Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drives”
He is presently Senior Scientist at ABB corporate research Centre, Sweden
Year 2006
6. P.N.Tekwani
Thesis Title: “ SpacePhasor based Hysterises Controllers & Common mode Voltage elimination for Multilevel Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drives “
Currently working as Professor & HOD of Department of Electrical Engineering, Nirma University, India
Year 2007
7. L. Sanjay
Thesis Title: “12 Sided & 18 Sided polygonal Voltage Space Vector Fed Induction Motor Drives using Cascaded 2-level Inverters”
8. Amod. C. Umarikar
Thesis Title: ” Modelling of Switching Systems in Bond Graphs using the concept of Switched Power Junctions”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), India
Year 2008
9. Gopal Mondal
Thesis Title: “ Reduced Switch Count Multilevel Inverter with Common mode voltage elimination for Induction Motor Drives”
He is presently Engineer at Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
Year 2009
10. Sheron Figarado
Thesis Title : “ Multilevel Inverters with reduced Circuit complexity for Medium voltage high power Induction Motor Drives by cascading conventional 2-level & 3-level inverters”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India
11. Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Thesis Title : “ Battery Buffered stiff microgrid structure for a variable speed slip-ring induction machine based wind generation system”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP), India
12. Ravinder Kumar
Thesis Title: “ Modelling& Design of a Solar Hybrid Desalination System with Pressure Modulation”
Year 2010
13. Anandarup Das
Thesis Title : “ Dodecagonal Space-Vector Generation for Induction Motor Drives”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD),India
14. Shivakumar K
Thesis Title:“Multilevel Voltage space vector Generation for Induction Motor Drives using conventional 2-level inverters & H-Bridge Cells”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH),India.
15. Rigil Ramachand
Thesis Title: “Boundary Selection for Switching Frequency variation control of Current Error Space Phasor based Hysteresis controller for Inverter fed Induction Motor Drives”
Currently working as Asssociate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Calicut
16. Umesh. B. Rai
Thesis title : “ Bond-Graph Model of Doubly Fed 3- phase induction motor using the Axis Rotator element for Frame Transformation
He is presently Chief Electrical Engineer at Indian RailwaysChennai, India
Year 2011
17. Sukumar De
Thesis Title : “Rectifier & Inverter system for driving axial flux BLDC motors in more electric aircraft applications”
He is presently Director Engineering, Honeywell India
18. Patel ChintanbhaiRamubhai
Thesis Title: “ Sensorless vector control using current error space phasor and direct torque control of Induction Motor Drives based on hexagonal and 12- sided polygonal spacevectors”
19. U.R. Prasanna
Thesis Title: ”Modelling, Optimisation & Design of a Solar Thermal Energy Transport system for Hybrid cooking applications”
Year 2012
20. Rajeevan.P.P
Thesis Title : “ Investigations on Hybrid Multilevel Power Control Topologies and control schemes for AC Drives”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Department of Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum,India
21. Anubrata Dey
Thesis Title: “Investigations on online boundary variation techniques for nearly constant switching frequency hysteresis PWM controller for multilevel inverter fed IM drives”
Currently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee,India
22. Sudhin Roy
Thesis Title: “Grid Interactive Quality AC Power Supply with Switching arm based Integrated magnetics for dynamically control interconnection among multiple sources & loads”
Year 2013
23. K. Mathew
Thesis Title: “Induction Motor Drives Based on Multilevel Dodecagonal and Octadecagonal Voltage Space Vectors”
Currently working as Associate Professor and HOD of Electronics & Communication Engineering department , MAR Athanasius College of Engineering, Kerala, India
Year 2014
24. Najath Abdul Azeez
Thesis Title: “Studies on Current Hysteresis Controllers and Low Harmonic Suppression Techniques for IM Drives with Dodecagonal Voltage Space Vectors”
Currently pursuing Post-Doc from University of Ontario, Canada
25. Jaison Mathew
Thesis Title : “Investigation on Dodecagonal Multilevel Voltage Space Vector Structures by Cascading Flying Capacitor and Floating H-bridge Cells for Medium Voltage IM Drives”
Currently working as Asst. Professor in Electrical & Electronics Department , Government College of Engineering, Thrissur,India
26. Roshan Kumar Pappu
Thesis Title: “Studies on Single DC link Fed Multilevel Inverter Topologies Using Flying Capacitor And Floating Capacitor Fed H-Bridges”
27. Rex Joseph
Thesis Title : “Ballast Free variable speed generation for standalone & Grid connected micro hydel power plants”
Year 2015
28. Lalit Patnaik
Thesis Title:”Dynamics& Control of Rimless wheel based 2-D dynamic walker using pulsed torque actuation”
Currently pursuing Post-Doc from University of Ontario, Canada
29. Sudharshan kaarthik
Thesis Title : “Multilevel Dodecagonal Space Vector Structures and Modulation Schemes with Hybrid Topologies for Variable Speed AC drives”
Currently pursuing Post-Doc from Concordia University, Canada
Year 2016
30. Abhijit Kshirsagar
Thesis Title : “Reduced Switch Count Multilevel Inverter for Open-end Induction Motor Drives”
List of MSc.(Engg.) Alumni
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